2. “No doubt you are the people,And wisdom will die with you!
3. But I have understanding as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
4. “I am one mocked by his friends,Who called on God, and He answered him,The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
5. A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
6. The tents of robbers prosper,And those who provoke God are secure—In what God provides by His hand.
7. “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;